The Warsaw Yiddish newspaper “Folksshtimme” has denied reports that a soccer field will be built on the site where martyrs of the ghetto are buried, according to a Yiddish-language Warsaw radio broadcast. The broadcast was beamed to North America.
According to the broadcast, the newspaper reported that a sports association had requested permission to build a soccer field on a part of the site where there are no graves. The request, the newspaper said, was considered at a meeting of the Presidium of the Warsaw People’s Council, with the participation of Jewish, leaders, and it was decided not to grant permission to use any part of the site, “even in the neighborhood of more, the report asserted, it was decided that a memorial to “the victims of Hitlerism” should be erected on the field.
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